Privacy Policy

Last Updated: March 02, 2015
Change (March 02, 2015 ): Added policy for Windows phone 8 applications. Modified policy for create children book and comicker application.
Change (Sept 09, 2014): Added BodhaGuru create children/read children book application related privacy policy – which collects username, email address after parental gate.
Change (Oct 04, 2013): Added BodhaGuru Apple iOS application related privacy policy.
Change (May 13, 2013): Added BodhaGuru Windows8 application related privacy policy.
Change (Jan 12, 2013): Changed BodhaGuru Android mobile application related privacy policy to segregate paid (no ads) vs free apps (ad driven).
Change (July 08, 2012): Added BodhaGuru mobile application related privacy policy. Added products related changes to website privacy policy.

Welcome ! We sincerely appreciate you visiting our website, using our content (videos, books, games, applications) and products. Hope you are having a great learning experience.

BodhaGuru is committed to protecting the privacy of its users. This statement discloses the privacy practices for BodhaGuru website (located at www.bodhaguru.com, m.bodhaguru.com), BodhaGuru Android applications that can be downloaded from various application marketplaces (like play.google.com, www.amazon.com/appstore, etc), BodhaGuru Windows8 applications that can be downloaded from Microsoft Windows Store and BodhaGuru iOS applications that can be downloaded from Apple App Store.

This Privacy Policy describes what information we gather from you, how we use that information, and what we do to protect it. By using the BodhaGuru Website or BodhaGuru application, you expressly consent to the information handling practices described in this policy. If you do not want information about you to be used in the manner set forth in this Privacy Policy, please do not use our Website or install our application. Questions regarding this statement should be directed to [email protected].

The information gathered by BodhaGuru primarily falls into following categories:

(1) Information voluntarily supplied by visitors to our website or users of our applications through optional newsletter registration or posting a comment or sharing on the social networking medium or buying products.

When you browse our Website or optionally share our content on the social media (like doing a facebook send or like, doing a twitter retweet, doing a youtube subscribe/comment, doing google+ +1), you may provide us what is generally called âpersonally identifiableâ information (such as your name, email address, facebook user id, google+ user id, twitter user id or youtube user id). The information you supply help us to make BodhaGuru a better website by allowing us to tailor our site to your interests and make it more useful to you. Supplying such information is entirely voluntary, completely under YOUR control and our website NOR our applications implicitly NEVER extracts this information from anywhere.

When you optionally buy products on our website or through our any of our applications, you will be asked to provide certain information like billing and shipping details (name, address, phone number, email address etc). We require this information to ship the product to your location. During the buying process, you may enter the payment information (e.g. credit card details, net banking details) using the third party payment gateway provider EBS (https://secure.ebs.in). This payment information is securely and directly passed between your browser to the payment gateway and BodhaGuru does not participate in that data transmission or storage of this information. Information collected by third parties in this manner is subject to that third partyâs own data collection, use, and disclosure policies.

In some instances, which involve, for example, optional email or postal newsletter subscription, you may need to provide all the information before the newsletter can reach you. We can’t deliver newsletter or notify you that you’ve been lucky enough to win a prize in a promotional contest if we don’t know how to contact you. If you do register with BodhaGuru for newsletters, we may, from time to time, contact you about new content and features that we believe may be of interest to you. Of course, even if you want to remain completely anonymous, you are still free to take advantage of the wealth of content available on our site without providing any personal information.
And, of course, any information you include in a posting to the discussion areas is available to anyone with Internet access.

(2) Tracking information gathered as visitors navigating through our BodhaGuru Website.

The web serversâ from which you browse our content or the marketplace serversâ from which you downloaded our application, automatically collect limited information about your computer’s connection to the Internet, including your IP address, when you visit our websites or use our application. (Your IP address is a number that lets computers attached to the Internet know where to send you data — such as the web pages you view.) Your IP address does not identify you personally. We use this information to deliver our web pages to you upon request, to tailor our websites and applications to the interests of our users, to measure traffic within our websites (using Google Analytics), download of our applications and let advertisers know the geographic locations from where our visitors come. BodhaGuru uses all of the information that you provide or that we collect from users to understand and analyze the usage trends and preferences of our users, to improve the way the Website or applications works and looks, and to create new features and functionality.

BodhaGuru website may include links to other websites whose privacy policies we do not control. Once you leave our servers (you can tell where you are by checking the URL in the location bar on your browser), use of any information you provide is governed by the privacy policy of the operator of the site you are visiting. That policy may differ from ours. If you can’t find the privacy policy of any of these sites via a link from the site’s homepage, you should contact the site directly for more information.

To help make our websites more responsive to the needs of our visitors, we invoke a standard feature of Google Analytics software, called a “cookie”, to assign each visitor a unique, random number (a sort of user ID) that resides on your computer. The cookie does not personally identify the visitor as an individual; rather, cookies merely identify the computer that a visitor uses to access our sites. Unless you voluntarily identify yourself, we will have no way of knowing who you are, even if we assign a cookie to your computer. We use cookies with help of Google Analytics software to help us tailor our sites to meet your needs, and to deliver a better service that is keyed to the interests of our visitors. We use cookies to determine what features our visitors prefer and which are less popular. We can build a better site if we know which pages our users are visiting and how often. And we use cookies to avoid showing you the same ad, repeatedly, during a single visit. If you do not want the benefit of cookies, there is a simple process to manually delete your cookies. Please consult your web browser’s Help documentation for more information on this process.

We also show third party content, such as advertising on our website or our Youtube free videos that uses âclear gifs,â âweb beacons,â or other similar techniques, which allow the third party content provider (aka ad networks) to read and write cookies to your browser (e.g. if you click on their ads) or implement similar tracking mechanisms, in connection with your viewing of that third party content displayed on the Website or send advertisements (like billboard, banner ads etc) to the youtube flash player application. This information is collected directly by the third party ad networks, and BodhaGuru does not participate in that data transmission. Information collected by third parties in this manner is subject to that third partyâs own data collection, use, and disclosure policies. When we present information to our advertisers — to help them understand our audience and confirm the value of advertising on our websites and application — it is usually in the form of aggregated statistics on traffic to various pages within our sites and applications.

(3) Access level permission by BodhaGuru Android applications.

Our creator and reader series of educational applications (i.e. “Create Children Book”, “Read Children Book”, “Comicker”, “My India Share Ideas”, “My India Read Ideas”, “Chhota Bheem Comic Maker”, “Chhota Bheem Comic Reader”) allow parents and adults to register to our book store using username, password and email address. The email address is used to share book updates, app updates and any message to the user by our organization or our partners (like GreenGold Animation Private Limited). This email address is not used for any other purposes nor shared to any third party marketing company. These applications also access Internet to download a book or publish a book.

Our educational applications which are FREE (like Rebuild the farm, Basic Addition Free) accesses Internet to fetch the advertisements from third party content providers. As given in point one, we cannot guarantee the access level by the third party content providers (aka ad networks) code that fetches the advertisements from their networks in case of our FREE applications. They minimally access device ID of the device while fetching the ad.

Note: Some of our FREE applications (i.e. all apps in VgyanGuru series) fetch education content from our website (bodhaguru.com) or from our YouTube channel.

To understand the usage of our app and update our apps for the user requirements, we call Google Analytics to upload few usage statistics to Google cloud. These statistics mainly include the usage behaviour (e.g. Tracing feature is called in Draw N Learn app). These statistics DOES include any personal identifiable data (like username, phone number, email address etc).
Our education applications which are PAID (like Basic Addition) DOES NOT show any advertisements and hence DOES NOT access Internet nor fetch advertisements from any third party content providers and hence DOES NOT collect any information from your device â except statistics collected for analytics (as given above).

Two of our educational applications – Create Children Book and Comicker app â accesses device Picture Gallery â when user clicks on take picture button while previewing a given book. This way user can save the picture of each page or panel of the book in deviceâs picture gallery and hence this permission is required.

Our code in all the rest of applications DOES NOT accesses any store in the device which has user personal information like contacts, gallery, call list, phone directory, mails, social networking applications etc.

Our code in the applications DOES NOT accesses location specific information of the device.

Please check the access permissions before installation of the application. If you are not comfortable with the access level during the installation of application on your device, please do not install the application on your device.

(4) Access level permission by BodhaGuru Windows8 applications on Windows Store.

Our education application â BodhaGuru Class 1 to 3 – accesses Internet to fetch the educational content (like videos, images) or settings (like this privacy policy) from the Internet when user clicks on appropriate link (like Videos, Image gallery, privacy policy)). Hence this application needs Internet access permission. This application is available for free on Windows8 are for trial purposes – you can access the free content to try our application. If you like the application, you have the option to buy the application by clicking the Buy button. At this stage, the application will connect you to Windows store – where you can select the appropriate payment mechanism and you can enter the payment information (e.g. credit card details, net banking details) using the Microsoft Windows store payment gateway. This payment information is securely and directly passed between your browser to the Microsoft Windows store payment gateway and BodhaGuru does not participate in that data transmission or storage of this information. Information collected by Microsoft in this manner is subject to that third partyâs own data collection, use, and disclosure policies. When you share our content on the social media (like doing a facebook or email share on Charms bar), you may provide us what is generally called âpersonally identifiableâ information (such as your name, email address, facebook user id, google+ user id, twitter user id). The information you supply help us to make our application better by allowing us to tailor our application to your interests and make it more useful to you. Supplying such information is entirely voluntary, completely under YOUR control and our application implicitly NEVER extracts this information from anywhere.

Our education applications which are PAID (like Basic Addition) DOES NOT show any advertisements and hence DOES NOT access Internet nor fetch advertisements from any third party content providers and hence DOES NOT collect any information from your device â except statistics collected for analytics (as given above).

Our rest of the educational applications, which are FREE (like Basic Addition Free) accesses Internet to fetch the advertisements from third party content providers or our in-house advertisements. However, as given in point one, we cannot guarantee the access level by the third party content providers (aka ad networks) code that fetches the advertisements from their networks in case of our FREE applications. They minimally access device ID of the device while fetching the ad.

Our education applications DOES NOT accesses any store in the device which has user personal information like contacts, gallery call list, phone directory, mails, social networking applications etc.

Our education applications DOES NOT access location specific information of the device.

(5) Access level permission by BodhaGuru iOS applications on Apple App Store.

Our educational applications (like “Create Children Book”, “Read Children Book”, “Comicker”, “My India Share Ideas”, “My India Read Ideas”, “Chhota Bheem Comic Maker”, “Chhota Bheem Comic Reader”) allow parents and adults to register to our book store using username, password and email address. The email address is used to share book updates, app updates and any message to the user by our organization or our partners (like GreenGold Animation Private Limited). This email address is not used for any other purposes nor shared to any third party marketing company. These applications also access Internet to download a book or publish a book.

Our educational applications which are FREE (like Rebuild the farm, Basic Addition Free) accesses Internet to fetch the advertisements from third party content providers. However, as given in point one, we cannot guarantee the access level by the third party content providers (aka ad networks) code that fetches the advertisements from their networks in case of our FREE applications. They minimally access device ID of the device while fetching the ad.

Two of our educational applications – Create Children Book and Comicker app â accesses device Picture Gallery â when user clicks on take picture button in preview mode. This way user can save the picture of each page or panel in deviceâs picture gallery.

Our code in the applications DOES NOT accesses location specific information of the device.

(6) Information storage security.

All information gathered on BodhaGuru webservers is securely stored within the BodhaGuru admin-controlled database. The database is stored on servers secured behind a firewall; access to the servers is password-protected and is strictly limited. However, as effective as our security measures are, no security system is impenetrable. We cannot guarantee the security of our database, nor can we guarantee that information you supply will not be intercepted while being transmitted to us over the Internet.

This policy is effective from May 13, 2013.

A note to end on: The Web and the mobile applications are continuously evolving and we can change our privacy policy in the future.